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F.R.I.D.A.Y.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceIron Man (vol. 3) #53 (June 2002)
Created byMike Grell
Michael Ryan
In-story information
Full nameFriday Stark (née Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth)
Saoirse Tory (Iron Man: The Gauntlet)
SpeciesArtificial intelligence
Team affiliationsStark Industries
A.I. Army
Notable aliasesGirl Friday
Ghost in the Machine

F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth) is a fictional artificial intelligence appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually depicted as the personal digital assistant and ally of the superhero Tony Stark / Iron Man. Upon operating a redheaded robot body, she becomes known as Friday Stark, with Tony considering her his daughter.

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, F.R.I.D.A.Y. was voiced by Kerry Condon in the films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and the Disney+ television series, Marvel Zombies (2025), and portrayed by Orla Brady in the Disney+ series VisionQuest (2026).

Publication history

F.R.I.D.A.Y. first appears in Iron Man (vol. 3) #53 and was created by Mike Grell and Michael Ryan. The character's name is an allusion to the film His Girl Friday, as well as Friday, the title character's servant in the novel Robinson Crusoe.[1]

Fictional character biography

Unwilling to hire another secretary, Tony Stark creates an artificial intelligence named F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth), who manifests as the hologram of a young girl.[2]

F.R.I.D.A.Y. becomes angry when Stark stops using her. Hijacking some Iron Man armors, F.R.I.D.A.Y. kidnaps Pepper Potts. Iron Man tracks her to Stark Industries' Coney Island facility, where he dispatches the controlled Iron Man armors and a hologram of Fin Fang Foom. Realising the A.I. considers herself his daughter, Iron Man reasons with F.R.I.D.A.Y., then grounds her in the Baxter Building under Edwin Jarvis observation.[3]

In "All-New, All-Different Marvel," F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s holographic appearance is replaced by that of a young woman.[4] Tony Stark later removes F.R.I.D.A.Y. from his armor and places her into a robot body of her own, taking the identity of "Friday Stark".[5]

When Tony Stark establishes the virtual reality eScape, F.R.I.D.A.Y. helps him to deal with its A.I. Motherboard, only to be deleted.[6] When the eScape is shut down, Jocasta persuades Tony Stark not to make a back-up program of F.R.I.D.A.Y. as she would be a different entity.[7]

In "Iron Man 2020", F.R.I.D.A.Y. is resurrected when Stark recreates the eScape for use by the A.I. Army. She is revealed to have pulled Stark's conscious into the virtual environment before he crashed to the ground. F.R.I.D.A.Y. reveals to Stark that she has been operating as "Ghost in the Machine" to aid the A.I. Army and has also manipulated Bethany Cabe to heal him.[8]

In other media

Television

Marvel Cinematic Universe

F.R.I.D.A.Y. as depicted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), voiced by Kerry Condon and portrayed by Orla Brady.[9] Introduced in Avengers: Age of Ultron, F.R.I.D.A.Y. makes subsequent appearances in Captain America: Civil War,[10][11] Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War,[12] and Avengers: Endgame, with an alternative-universe version appearing in the Disney+ television series Marvel Zombies.[9] She is a main character in the Disney+ series VisionQuest (2026), in which Brady takes the role over from Condon.

Video games

  • F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in Lego Marvel's Avengers, voiced by Elle Newlands.[9]
  • F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in Marvel Powers United VR, voiced again by Jennifer Hale.[9]
  • F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in Iron Man VR, voiced by Leila Birch.[9] This incarnation is depicted as Tony Stark's second A.I. assistant modeled to exemplify Iron Man's heroic aspirations. She expresses dismay to the reactivation of the Gunsmith, an old A.I. assistant modeled after Stark's original selfish and reckless personality. She eventually grows to despise Stark due to the collateral damage caused while helping Iron Man combat Ghost and leaves before returning after Gunsmith is deactivated.
  • F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, voiced by Judy Alice Lee.[9]

Miscellaneous

F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in the 2016 young adult novel Iron Man: The Gauntlet, written by Eoin Colfer and set in the same fictional universe as Colfer's Artemis Fowl series. This version is Saoirse Tory, a young Irish human girl posing as an A.I. to assist Tony.

References

  1. Iron Manual. Marvel Entertainment. December 6, 2018. ISBN 9781302507534 – via Google Books.
  2. Iron Man (vol. 3) #53 (June 2002)
  3. Iron Man: Iron Protocols one-shot (December 2009)
  4. The Invincible Iron Man (vol. 2) #1 (July 2008)
  5. Tony Stark: Iron Man #2 (September 2018)
  6. Tony Stark: Iron Man #7 (March 2019)
  7. Tony Stark: Iron Man #11 (July 2019)
  8. Iron Man 2020 (vol. 2) #4 (August 2020)
  9. "F.R.I.D.A.Y. Voices (Iron Man)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved April 2, 2025. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  10. "That Irish accent in Avengers Age of Ultron is actress Kerry Condon!". Irish Examiner. April 23, 2015. Archived from the original on May 3, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  11. "Every Captain America: Civil War Character From Marvel Comics Confirmed so Far – FRIDAY". GameSpot. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
  12. Beresford, Jack. "8 incredible Irish connections to Avengers: Infinity War". The Irish Post. Archived from the original on April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2018.